Ubuntu Receives IBM DB2 Certification

Khakionion writes "Ubuntu has announced their recent certification for IBM's DB2 Universal Database for Linux. Quite a big step for Ubuntu towards becoming one of the heavyweights of the Linux world." From the announcement: "With an respected product like DB2 on Ubuntu, our partners will relish the chance to discuss database and solution choices with their clients."

Comments

How important?

[JanneM]

How important are these kinds of certifications really? I assume they are really just a fancy way of saying "we support our software on this platform and are prepared to sell support and consulting services for our system running on it". If $LARGE_CORP decides to run, say, db2 on a system that isn't certified, wouldn't IBM be happy to take their money for support and such anyway - probably with an added surcharge due to the lack of certification, but on the other hand with a rebate for being $LARGE_CORP rather than $SMALL_FRY?

Re:How important?

[worf_mo]

Any large corporation is more likely to select an already certified system. For technical reasons as well as political ones (CYA).

I agree, this is a DUH move.

[ChrisMroz]

How many of us have family that dont play games but are computer illiterate? So many distros have managed to meet the criteria for a so-called perfect OS alternative. Ubuntu is it... or if you dont think its it, it will be. Near perfect project management and one of the best foundations to build on, Ubuntu isn't going anywhere. Good job IBM, here's a cookie. While I'm not staying away from gentoo or my flavor of slack(SLAMD64! w00t,) I will be putting more fear in the eyes of my WinONLY friends just because I know finally I can provide them with an alternative that can relate to them. While Novell and RedHat has done a great job, I think Ubuntu will be the open source monster that most of us have been waiting for. Who woulda thunk it! With a name like Ubuntu!

Compiling Anyway

[ObsessiveMathsFreak]

At this point, I've been having so many dependency issues with apt and yum, that 70% of the time, I end up compiling from source anyway. So I'm in fact moving to Gentoo. I'm sure it won't be a paneaca of all my dependency ills, but the way things stand I'm practically running a custom compiled system anyway.

Re:Compiling Anyway

[moro_666]

i've been using debian for 4 years now ... i admit i like the apt as it is and the dependancy issues can usually be resolved with some effort.

but the thing that bothers me is that debian is lately lagging far behind of the actual releases. for example, when slashdot was writing that 1.0.x version of firefox is invulnerable to something and all the previous versions too, then sitting on 1.0.(x-2) doesn't really feel good, and the waiting 2 months to get the upgrade smells funny.

tried out gentoo lately too ... imho it rocks. yea people dont like building the stuff all the time, but that is the choice you have to take when it comes down to staying on the bleeding edge. sometimes you even want to choose stuff that isn't bleeding edge but is defacto standard, like x.org, but debian had enormous problems to break off from the xfree86 server (and i'm not even now sure that it has braken off from it, i use ubuntu packages right now...)

the thing that really annoys is that mplayer tends to break all the time if installed from packages, so i compile that one myself and only update it if really breaks down (not when the package manager decides that it shouldnt be here anymore). and marillat tends to change the directories from time to time :s

if debian breaks this lagging behind and gets some improvement to the dependancy problems it's probably one of the best distros out there.

commercial distros i just dislike and once i saw dpkg i never looked at rpm hell again ( and i hope never will have to look at it again :D ).

Nice, but irrelevant...

[samj]

because distributions and vendors should be targeting the Linux Standards Base. IMO announcements like this are a step back for standards and remind me of the days we were hearing similar statements from RedHat.